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Diem Huong Ho of Foley Hoag LLP has served as lead associate in matters before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including ethnic Armenians' proceedings against Azerbaijan and The Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Sheena Paul is a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner in the firm's investment management group, where she focuses on regulatory and compliance matters and counsels private fund advisers — including leading Clayton Dubilier & Rice through a $26 billion fundraise — earning a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Stephen R. Chuk of Proskauer Rose LLP helped poultry giant Sanderson Farms beat $7 billion worth of antitrust claims at trial and scored another jury trial win on behalf of Major League Soccer, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
The University of Georgia School of Law said an expanded admissions policy will improve access to obtaining a law degree, allowing qualified applicants who earned a bachelor's degree from a Georgia public college or university to apply without having taken the Law School Admission Test or Graduate Record Exam.
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced Friday it hired a new chief information officer who has nearly 20 years of experience working in information technology at law firms and formerly worked in the same role at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
Rousso Boumel Law Firm PLLC, Singleton Schreiber LLP, Poses Law Group PA and Eaton & Wolk PL lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Miami federal jury found Tesla's autopilot product to be defective and awarded $329 million in damages following a 2019 fatal crash.
Following Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's hire last month of Crowell & Moring LLP attorney Evan D. Wolff as co-head of its cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice, two more Crowell & Moring lawyers will be joining the team.
Duane Morris is the latest in BigLaw to mandate more in-office work for its lawyers, with a spokesperson for the firm confirming Friday that it will require in-person work four days a week after Labor Day weekend.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has brought on as shareholder an international trade attorney from Polsinelli PC to lead its International Trade Commission Section 337 practice, the firm has announced.
What started as a way for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to support local artists during the COVID-19 quarantine has grown into what the firm says is the first arts foundation ever established by BigLaw.
The legal industry kicked off August with another action-packed week as law firms took on new attorneys and expanded their practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Higher tariffs are driving higher construction costs for law firm office build-outs and renovation projects, as firms look to improve the quality of the office experience rather than increase its footprint, according to a new report by CBRE.
Rachel O'Brien of Ropes & Gray LLP advised Hamilton Lane on its largest fundraise ever, closing with $5.6 billion in tow, and helped The Vistria Group LP clinch $3 billion in investor commitments for its largest-ever private equity fund — earning O'Brien a spot among the fund formation lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Laura Umbrecht Gulick of Goodwin Procter LLP advised Human Immunology Biosciences and Mariana Oncology in billion-dollar deals with Big Pharma last year, earning her a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Matthew Howell of Cozen O'Connor has been successful on bid protests, including a contract involving the Strategic National Stockpile and in helping clients navigate government regulations and reviews, earning him a spot among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Katelyn Horne of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has represented Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia in a wide range of disputes, defending their rights to crack down on human rights abuses and money laundering, as well as their ability to protect the environment against powerful multinationals, earning her a spot among the international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Mary E. Grinman of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has defended several large employers in proposed class actions alleging retirement plan mismanagement, including Liberty Mutual and JPMorgan, earning her a spot among benefits practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
Soon after Rishi Satia moved back to the Bay Area after years in Washington, D.C., he began representing the companies he'd heard about growing up in Los Gatos, California. In the seven years he's worked for Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's antitrust practice, he's represented an array of clients fighting claims they've stifled competition — from tech giants like Google and Qualcomm to the governing body for U.S. cricket teams — earning him a spot among the competition law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
A former team leader for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration who worked with its passenger carrier division on issues involving commercial passenger vehicles like buses and motor coaches has joined Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP's Washington, D.C., office as an of counsel.
Milbank LLP has become the first BigLaw firm to announce summer bonuses this year, offering up to $25,000 for associates and counsel after smaller shops also unveiled midyear payouts.
Proskauer Rose LLP's chief information officer has moved to Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in the same role in New York City.
Haynes Boone has added a litigator previously with Winston & Strawn LLP who once headed the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division as chair of its financial services investigations and enforcement practice in New York, the firm has announced.
International legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa has added as a managing director to its partner practice group in Houston a 40-year trial attorney who has practiced at Jackson Walker LLP, Winston & Strawn LLP, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright.
Womble Bond Dickinson has appointed a new London-based partner for its commercial disputes team, saying he will help strengthen the law firm's international arbitration practice following his move from Hill Dickinson LLP.
A Manhattan judge Wednesday threw out a former WilmerHale senior associate's lawsuit alleging he was unfairly evaluated and eventually fired because he is Black, finding that the complaint doesn't plausibly allege discriminatory comments were made about his race or that employees of other races were treated better.
Nonequity partners report the lowest satisfaction, highest stress and poorest financial outlook of any group of lawyers, highlighting a growing structural disconnect that leaves attorneys at many firms feeling like the ladder has been pulled up behind those who already ascended, says Jake Carroll at Nelson Mullins.
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Building Brand Awareness For A Legal NonprofitI co-founded the Bridging the Gap Scholarship as a way to increase minority representation in BigLaw, and my advice for other legal professionals starting a nonprofit is to focus on building brand awareness early on, and to get comfortable delegating work to a dedicated team, says Imani Maatuka at Sidley.
Understanding where colleagues in other practice areas shine can help attorneys confidently cross-sell each other's services and bring in business to keep the firm afloat in hard times, says Joe Calve at Calve Communications.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Advertise EthicallyBusiness development in the legal industry is about building authentic connections and showcasing expertise in a way that reflects reality, and, when done right, it can elevate a practice, establish credibility and bring in clients without risking an ethics violation, says Melody Jackson at Robinhood.
Molly Ranns at the State Bar of Michigan suggests five ways to smooth a colleague's return to practice after short-term mental health leave, while creating a firm culture that protects employees’ emotional health.
Amid a rapidly changing regulatory environment and a fierce market for talent, companies hoping to attract the best chief legal officers must have a strong grasp of their roles’ biggest selling points, and any roadblocks that may prevent them from recruiting the strongest choice, says Heather Fine at Major Lindsey.
As law firms increasingly use certain financial incentives to retain partners in a fierce lateral market, managing partners should consider the pros and cons of various deferred compensation schemes, says Tom Hanlon at Buchanan Law.
Many lawyers assume that becoming a rainmaker requires a significant investment of time and effort, but the truth is that building a consistent habit of business development can start with just 10 minutes of strategic outreach a day, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
Certain law firm decisions — such as whether to challenge an executive order — cannot be crowdsourced, but leadership can collaboratively communicate these choices using strategies that build trust, reinforce values and preserve cohesion, says John Hellerman at Hellerman Communications.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Create A Succession PlanConversations around retirement and succession can be understandably difficult, but when attorneys make a plan for the transition early and effectively, they have the opportunity to not only keep work but also increase it, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
In recent years, top-tier law firms have pushed hourly rates to unprecedented heights, with some partners commanding $3,000 per hour — but this eye-popping number doesn’t tell the full story, as there are numerous caveats and rigorous winnowing along the way, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.
Law firms that successfully manage two-tiered partnership do so by creating a culture that treats everyone with respect and by establishing financial incentives outside their base compensation to reward performance, says Carol Morganstern at Major Lindsey.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Leverage Your Atty BioIf maintained properly, your firm bio can help attract potential clients and create authentic connections, so it's crucial to take steps to write an updated attorney profile that goes beyond a list of credentials, says Raychel Lean at Reputation Ink.
Eran Kahana at Maslon discusses how partners can encourage responsible use of artificial intelligence tools within their firms by learning to spot pitfalls common to AI-generated work product and championing firmwide procedures and trainings that address the risks of uncritically relying on this powerful but imperfect technology.
Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.